No one lives forever

It’s been a month plus since I’ve updated my blog. I guess the lazy habit is kicking in recently or maybe I’ve been spending too much time in facebook, haha. Oh well, getting back to business. Today, I’ll like to talk about the concept of “impermanence” in my own view. Before you point to me and say, “Oh boy, he’s preaching”, I’ll like to say that I was never the kind of person who preaches or is fanatically into religion. It’s just I think this is something which is universally true and worth mentioning, at least to those who want to tinker about it. So let’s get started.

Nothing is forever in this world and that concept holds true to everything whether it is alive or it’s not. You and me even this world will one day end and we should carry this awareness with us in our everyday lives. The problem with most of us is that we tend to forget this fact most of the time we should be remembering it, or we are too ignorant to even care of it’s truth. One way to explain this is our possession. All of our possession is actually just temporary borrowed. We will never possess anything forever. Even the body we are using is borrowed and one day when we die, it’s time to return it. That is why we should not be overly possessive of something we have now because it will not be forever ours. A very true example of this theory is money. People now are getting more and more materialistic thinking and to most of us money is very important. I’m not saying money isn’t important but there are greater things of importance then just money in this world. There are many people who are too possessed in gaining financial wealth that they didn’t realize that they are neglecting many other important aspect of life, and that they can’t really carry all their wealth into their grave.

Realization of the fact of “impermanence” will also make you feel happier. Why is this so? It is because by realizing this, you will know how to let go of things and not hold on to it. A very practical example is your job. Even if you are a CEO/manager of a company today, it does not mean you will be a CEO/manager forever. Realization of the fact that one day your job will end definitely will make it easier for you to let go when the time comes and not hold on to it too dearly and probably making yourself and others miserable. Same goes for everything in life especially to people. We all know for certain that one day our parents, loves ones, friends and even ourselves will die. With this realization, we will better appreciate the moments and time with them now and won’t make ourselves too miserable with grief when they are no longer here because death is part of nature that we all cannot escape from.

I think I’ll stop here before I bore everyone to death with my “preaching”, so I’ll just let you all tinker about this until I write again next time, probability after I’m bored with facebook :P, Ya know, my interest in facebook is “impermanence” too :P